Best Of - DE7

Ballooning involves a special ability to submit yourself to the sky.
It means helplessness on the one hand, or freedom on the other.
tled. Then when a magnificently
bright, candy-colored balloon floated
just above the tree line from the park
behind my house, everything
changed. All my teenage disdain
transformed immediately into childlike
wonder. And how could anyone be
immune to this power? I know of nothing else so simultaneously silly and
majestic.
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I know it's real, though, when I
wake up at 3 a.m. to make it to the
Boar's Head Inn by 6 a.m., the
appointed meeting time to catch the
calm air before the sun gets too high.
Most customers stay at the inn the
night before, but I took the familiar
drive through the mountains along
Interstate 64 in darkness. Then, the
faint pink glow, the lighter sky, and -

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